Posted
by
CowboyNealon Friday July 15, 2005 @03:09AM
from the hot-sheet dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Fujitsu today announced their joint development of the world's first film substrate-based bendable color electronic paper with an image memory function. The new electronic paper features vivid color images that are unaffected even when the screen is bent, and features an image memory function that enables continuous display of the same image without the need for electricity. The thin and flexible electronic paper uses very low power to change screen images, thereby making it ideal for displaying information or advertisements in public areas as a type of new electronic media that can be handled as easily as paper. The jointly developed electronic paper will be showcased at Fujitsu Forum 2005, to be held July 14 and 15 at Tokyo International Forum."

There was a professor in our CS department, from whom I fortunately never took a class. Besides being both incompetent and insane, she was downright stupid about markers. She would start circling something on the white board while she lectured, and just keep circling it over and over again. There is still a mark on the white board from the time she used a permanent marker instead of dry-erase for that purpose.

Of course, a friend of mine once showed up for her class, and he was the only one there. She lectured anyhow. I told him that he should have excused himself to use the restroom for about 10 minutes, to see if she continued lecturing, paused the lecture and waited for his return, or just left. We may never know.

That would be nice in combination with a built in fingerprint recognition (for example in my front door handle). Whenever my girlfriend comes to my flat, she will be happy about the loads of photos of her everywhere in my flat.